Quark confinement without a confining force

Isaac, P. S.; Joyce, W. P.; Links, J.

Quark confinement without a confining force

Authors

Isaac, P. S.

Joyce, W. P.

Links, J.

Description

We show that a non-associative structure applied to the algebra of Fermi operators with su(3) colour degrees of freedom leads to a consistent Fermi statistic for the tensor operators of the colour algebra. A consequence of this construction is that leads to quark confinement, without the need to resort to a confining force. Confinement arises as a symmetry constraint in much the same manner as the Pauli exclusion principle.
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